Word: sorest
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Pearson cited examples of current U.S.Canadian problems and hinted broadly at Canadian impatience over delays in working out solutions. Among the sorest points were the U.S. failure to iron out its air-rights agreement with Canada, and the dispute over judicial and customs rights at U.S.-leased military bases in Newfoundland (TIME, Nov. 14). Pearson also complained of the U.S. practice of barring certain Canadian visitors to the U.S. on seemingly capricious political grounds...
Permit me, however, to elucidate one point which you mentioned in passing. . . . I believe that this point is the sorest spot, the most serious problem confronting the Greece of today. I quote: "The old ability to make two drachmas grow where one grew before seems to have sputtered out." Right; the lack of individual enterprise-or rather, the complete reluctance to indulge in it . . . is the most perplexing reality in Greece's present national life. It is also the most important single factor in that country's current stagnation. No reconstruction, no rehabilitation, not even a simple personal...
...peace in Palestine pending the U.N.'s action (it will not take the case until September; a decision may be more than a year away). And he would make no promise of an increase in Jewish immigration to the Holy Land (now 1,500 a month), the sorest point of all with Zionists...
What made Hurley sorest was what he called the practice of some lower-level officials in State "leaking information derogatory to the settled policy of this Government." He added, in characteristic Hurley lingo: "I'm opposed to being leaked upon...
...President, spokesman for the U.S. people, this week made a speech that touched about the sorest U.S. problem-strikes in industry. He offered no new method of solution, but what he said made plain sense to most U.S. citizens. At the American Legion County Fair in rural Caruthersville, Mo., the President said...